I carefully cut mine out with a drimel until I could colapse it and remove it.
All the grease idea did was make a major mess.
Tried the tap idea to, once I got the bearing to stop tuning and I was actually able to tap it and pull, all it did was remove the inter race and bearings. The outer race remained.
Out came the drimel.
I'm using the bronze bearing from Marlin. So far so good. But I have been told by Dennis Quella to check it when I have to remove the gearbox for any reason to make sure it hasn't become oblonged and out of round.
So far so good after about 6000 miles.
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